Episodes

  • Dramatis Personae
    Apr 19 2023

    Building off of a cliffhanger, Co-hosts Gavin Wax and Troy Olson continue unpacking the origins of today’s political crisis: Watergate and the media’s entrance as co-lead characters in the drama that is American politics and affairs of state.

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    44 mins
  • The Jumping Off Point
    Apr 19 2023

    The DeSantis camp, constituting a pseudo-campaign that has failed to launch, argues that state polls are where their principal will show his strength. Co-hosts Gavin Wax and Troy Olson talk about the significance of those polls, the primary calendar, and more.

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    49 mins
  • What is Populism?
    Apr 5 2023

    From the time of Julius Caesar to today, populism has ebbed and flowed. It has had times of enduring appeal and has been eternally despised by elites. Co-hosts Gavin Wax and Troy Olson do a survey course of America’s version of populism from its Jefferson-Jackson roots to Jennings Bryan to Teddy Roosevelt and finally to Trump.

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    49 mins
  • Trump Indicted
    Apr 5 2023

    Professionally wrong, “very serious people” are wrong again. Co-hosts Gavin Wax and Troy Olson break down the unfolding historic story of President Trump’s indictment and the early polling that shows it is helping him politically.

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    57 mins
  • DeSantis: De Facto to Demoted
    Mar 28 2023

    Co-hosts Gavin Wax and Troy Olson break down the past week, which saw President Trump face a political witch-hunt and de facto presidential candidate DeSantis botch his response to the unprecedented leftist judicial overreach. Wax and Olson analyze current events and other news and analysis from a populist perspective.

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    1 hr and 26 mins